[DogPound71]

I am having a little trouble printing white. I think I have good off contact I leveled and measure the distance of my frame and pellot platform. And my angle of my squeegy is 90-80 degress and I press down. My test sheet comes out very clean and neat but when I print on my tshirt and then flash cure it the image comes out slightly blurry or off register when I print the second time. I am only printing one color. What am I doing wrong. When I am finish printing I always make sure I pop the squeegy at the end of the print.

Oh, and the registration is tight. I am using a silverpress by ryonet. I leveled and balance the off contact and the angle of the arm. And the platic guardes are firm to the arm of the press.

 

[crazymike]

You may be flashing to hot or to long and shrinking the shirt.

 

[DogPound71]

I have the hand held heat gun and I only pass the shirt a couple of times no more than 30 seconds, I know if I go over the image twice before Flashing I can get a off reg ghost image so I only pass one time but still when I print the second time I will either get a blurr on some part of the image and everthing else will be right on mark. It confusing.

 

[crazymike]

It could also be not enough glue on pallet or screen
with low tension or corners of screens loose or
press registration sloppy.

 

[Celtic]

It could also be not enough glue on pallet or screen
with low tension or corners of screens loose or
press registration sloppy.

I was thinking not enough adhesive too.

 

[DogPound71]

Thanks. I will spray more adhsieve and also a person from Ryonet suggested that I should push and not pull, but I thought you should not do it with white ink. I will attempt to try to see if that will work.

 

[macumazahn]

One thing that tripped me up was not having the screen itself tight enough in the clamp. Threw me off for every second pass. Might check that

 

[pyrophire]

90 degrees on your squeegee pull... like straight up and down? How is that going to push any ink through the screen and not just across it...

 

[Celtic]

Thanks. I will spray more adhsieve and also a person from Ryonet suggested that I should push and not pull, but I thought you should not do it with white ink. I will attempt to try to see if that will work.

Pushing is the way to go!
The only time that I pull is for a small pocket size print. The push stroke works great with white.
You'll find that you are less fatigued overall with the push stroke and it also feels like you're using less energy with each stroke.
It's much easier on your body doing the push stroke.

 

[brice]

push / pull, chicken before egg, etc... all debatable. Pull v push is not going to affect registration. As long as you always pull or or always push, you will get consistent results.

I'd try to figure out why it only happens on white. Is it EVERY white print, even in different jobs? How are you flashing? How long do you flash?

 

[DogPound71]

This is my first job for myself before I do a customers. It is not all the time but the majority.

I checked my off contact distance 1/8 of an inch all the way. I clear the screen when I have a steep angle I have no ink left behind. I push down and pull consistently.

I use a heat gun to flash and then use my heat press to cure. I flash for at least 30-40 seconds. My shirts are cured correctly. I do the pull and stretch test.

 

[brice]

I doubt that heat gun is doing you any favors.

 

[DogPound71]

I have no problems with the heat gun, yes it takes a little longer but at the end I cure it w/ my heat press. When I flash it my fingers do not pull up ink.

 

[RavensFan]

Try working the ink with a spatula or drill with mixing bit to soften it before printing. It could be that the ink is not stirred enough to make it more viscous and it is stretching your screen disproportionately while you are printing. When we first starting printing - we found this was one of the primary issues we were facing. Good luck.

 

[DogPound71]

Thanks, for the info will stir the ink more w/ a spatular.

 

[Texsource Ronnie]

Not having the correct adhesive sounds like your issue, i use 3m 77 from walmart, a little expensive but good.

 

[DogPound71]

I am going to spray my pallon so the shirt won't rotate.

 

[Jsaladin]

are you getting bleeding on the back side of your screen. You say it looks fussy. Sounds like you have ink under your screen. Clean the bottom of the screen and print, then check the bottom of the screen and see what it looks like.

 

[robtex]

could be something as simple as not having enough spray adhesive.or perhaps your pallet is not as tighy as it could be.just a couple of thoughts.

 

[DogPound71]

I do not have bleeding but once. But I do not heavily spray my shirt board so I will try that.